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Steven Heller, art director of the NY Times has started a new site. Lots of great books and articles now. Not to mention podacasts of some of his lectures.
There’s a section for a blog. But it’s flagged “coming soon!”. I hate when people do that. If it’s not ready now. Then don’t put it in […]

Or does this new program seem like a scam?
The above story was brought to light by the hard working folks at Galleycat.

to ugly books. Here’s a nifty rant on the looks of books.
I think he has a point. Publishers are cranking out titles by the boatload. Too fast for any serious design and thoughtful consideration to be embedded in the all the covers. True. There are a few. But for the most part, most covers and […]

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Jim Baggett of the Birmingham Library is leading an hour-long walking tour of downtown’s notorious historic sites. It’s planned for October 27th at 5:45 pm. Their blog says it’ll cover “murders, mysteries and fallen women”.
How fun does that sound? The weather is perfect and the event is free, though you do need to call them […]

How could I overlook mentioning the Man Booker winner announcement!?
Anyway, as you probably already know Kiran Desai won for The Inheritance of Loss. It was released back in Janurary and is published by Hamish Hamilton.

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Michael Dirda is on BookTV this weekend. He’d talking about his Book by Book book. The show airs at 6:30 am (CST) and again at 7:00 pm (CST) on Sunday.
Here’s the rest if this weekend’s schedule 

The Deep South group over on LibraryThing has just started reading “A Confederacy of Dunces“. If you’d like to chime in on the conversation, click on over!